Derrida has described his philosophic project as "a general strategy of deconstruction which would avoid both simply neutralizing the binary oppositions of metaphysics and simply residing, while ...
Celebrated French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida focused his attention on the oppositional binaries Western philosophy and literature are seeped in. His deconstruction of language and philosophy ...
A true philosopher: Derrida questioned his own peculiar methods as much as the things he was questioning. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images In May 1992, academics at the University of Cambridge reacted ...
In Derrida: A Biography, the first in-depth account of the life of the iconoclastic French postmodern philosopher, Benoît Peeters looks at the dawn of a semiotic analysis that would dominate Western ...
Just over a decade ago, the dons of Cambridge University awarded an honorary degree to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, having previously turned him down for one. It is doubtful that many of ...